5.1.1 K3 example [03UK]
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5.1.1 K3 example
In the case of collapsing K3 surfaces the corresponding intergal Monge-Ampère manifold has an explicit description.
Let be a complex surface endowed with a holomorphic non-vanishing volume form , and be a holomorphic fibration over a complex curve , such that fibers of are non-singular elliptic curves.
We define a metric on as the Kähler metric associated with the -form . Let us choose (locally on ) a basis in . We define two closed 1-forms on by the formulas
It follows that for some functions . We define a -affine structure on , and the corresponding connection , by saying that are -affine coordinates (compare with 3.2.4). One can check directly that is a Monge-Ampère manifold. In a typical example of elliptic fibration of a K3 surface, one gets , where is a set of distinct points in . M. Gross and P. Wilson (see [GW]) proved that there exists a family of K3 surfaces with Calabi-Yau metrics collapsing to with the intergal Monge-Ampère structure described above.